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Re: also WANTED: VMS info
Article: 7710 of alt.hackers From: chowes@trance.helix.net (Charles Howes) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: also WANTED: VMS info Date: 21 Apr 1995 04:49:18 -0700 Organization: Helix Internet Lines: 47 Approved: just this guy, you know? Message-ID: 3n863u$nop@trance.helix.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.244.2.2 Status: RO
In article <UNI.EDU-1404951107260001@amana.math-cs.uni.edu>, UNI.EDU <UNI.EDU> wrote: > >In another fun twist of fate, I find my campus sysop capturing my >sessions to disk. Not only does he have a copy of EVERY keystroke >I make, but also everything on my screen. This is not only a >profound violation of my privacy, making it impossible to exchange >private email, it also makes any passwords I type insecure, and >to top it all off, the file is IN MY DIRECTORY, and is quickly eating >up all my quota of blocks. I've got about 63 free right now, and need >a solution. > >The file is appended when I log off. I cannot *see* the file, but my >quota goes down in proportion to the amount of keystrokes and text viewed >my previous login. Any ideas how to show this file in the directory, >or how to delete it if I find it? It's on a Dec Alpha running OpenVMS. > >Please respond with a followup instead of a reply, for obvious reasons. Sigh. If only it were a unix system, you could: 1) remove the file 2) replace it with a file you can read 3) replace it with a symlink to /dev/null Is there a VMS tool for showing a list of all open files? If you fill up your quota with a big empty file, does the keystroke logging program crash and burn? If so, can you still use the system afterwards? Maybe try uploading files; the file transfer looks like keystrokes; a 63-block file transfer should do it. Let the file be random garbage. Also, doesn't VMS have the principle "If a file affects your quota, you have control over it"? Oh, and just in case it is a unix system, check for a filename starting with a ".". 'ls -la | more' comes to mind. -- -- Charles Howes -- chowes@helix.net Always tell the truth, then you make it the other bloke's problem! - Sean Connery, 1971
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